What a Freakin Pantywaste
"From the minute you wake up in the morning, you are being swayed by market forces."
I remember this quote from a movie (a movie that cost $3.74 to rent, plus $.17 tax which means you get $.99 change that you have to turn around and spend cuz you don't want change). Always comes back to me for some reason.
I get up and go to get an oil change. Just an oil change. I walk into the waiting room (Buy a $.50 soda, not because I'm thirsty but because of my trained caffeine addiction) and a guy next to me tells me how he watched 20-20 the night before. Their expose was on Jiffy Lube. Every guy that walks in with a car, the salesmen try and get him to spend $50. No way he was going to, he said.
The mechanic comes in and tells him he needs a new filter. He says no way. Suddenly, a minute later, he stands up and follows the mechanic out.
"Maybe I do need that new filter," he said laughing over his shoulder.
When I leave: $56.99 (the oil change was $32).
I go to Wall-Mart to get pictures processed. I don't NEED anything else (Hell, I don't need the photos reproduced). I leave buying a DVD because it was only $5.50. I also get gum cuz hey I need it.
I go to Giant and get flowers. I choose the $7.99 bouquet because they look slightly more fresh and full than the $3.99 bouquet. The cashier would want my address and phone number on the $3.99 bouquet so the company can issue me a "Big Savings" card and track my buying habits so they can SAVE ME MONEY.
I get in my car and listen to the slick perfect processed music that 250 million other people listen to. I worry that I didn't get enough fixed on my car. I shove $2 into a donation box for alcoholic teens who need Jesus and I go home.
We live in an unbelievably complicated society where everything is weighed and monitored in terms of value. But then again, it's unbelievably simple. Everything is weighed and monitored in terms of value. It's all reduced to dollars and cents.
Why do I feel like just screaming?
I remember this quote from a movie (a movie that cost $3.74 to rent, plus $.17 tax which means you get $.99 change that you have to turn around and spend cuz you don't want change). Always comes back to me for some reason.
I get up and go to get an oil change. Just an oil change. I walk into the waiting room (Buy a $.50 soda, not because I'm thirsty but because of my trained caffeine addiction) and a guy next to me tells me how he watched 20-20 the night before. Their expose was on Jiffy Lube. Every guy that walks in with a car, the salesmen try and get him to spend $50. No way he was going to, he said.
The mechanic comes in and tells him he needs a new filter. He says no way. Suddenly, a minute later, he stands up and follows the mechanic out.
"Maybe I do need that new filter," he said laughing over his shoulder.
When I leave: $56.99 (the oil change was $32).
I go to Wall-Mart to get pictures processed. I don't NEED anything else (Hell, I don't need the photos reproduced). I leave buying a DVD because it was only $5.50. I also get gum cuz hey I need it.
I go to Giant and get flowers. I choose the $7.99 bouquet because they look slightly more fresh and full than the $3.99 bouquet. The cashier would want my address and phone number on the $3.99 bouquet so the company can issue me a "Big Savings" card and track my buying habits so they can SAVE ME MONEY.
I get in my car and listen to the slick perfect processed music that 250 million other people listen to. I worry that I didn't get enough fixed on my car. I shove $2 into a donation box for alcoholic teens who need Jesus and I go home.
We live in an unbelievably complicated society where everything is weighed and monitored in terms of value. But then again, it's unbelievably simple. Everything is weighed and monitored in terms of value. It's all reduced to dollars and cents.
Why do I feel like just screaming?
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home